Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alighting from the plane in Chungking, panama in hand, he shook hands with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and a battery of China's top diplomats. Then he was led to the 1939 Cadillac where Mme. Chiang awaited him. On the way to the car, a white-gloved brass band struck up The Star-Spangled Banner. The Gissimo, preceding Henry Wallace, kept right on walking. A military aide rushed up, whispered in the Gissimo's ear. The Gissimo continued toward the car. The aide tried again. This time the Gissimo heard, came stiffly to attention while the band finished...
...skillful playing of the ancient Chinese game of family politics. Himself the direct descendant of Confucius (75th generation), Dr. Kung married the eldest of the three famed Soong sisters. At once he thus became the brother-in-law of China's late, sainted Sun Yatsen, of Chiang Kaishek, and of T. V. Soong...
...turbulent early years of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Government, the brilliant, Harvard-educated Soong performed prodigies of finance and foreign policy as Chiang's No. 2 man while brother-in-law Kung was just a well-placed bureaucrat. But by 1933 Dr. Kung emerged as Finance Minister...
...Clark, 40, proprietress of Montreal's Judith Clark dress shop; she for the second time, he for the first; in Montreal. A British-born onetime clothes peddler, he met China's late great Sun Yat-sen in Vancouver's Chinatown, became his personal bodyguard, later led Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese regulars and served in Europe as a secret agent for the Chinese...
...Asia and South America Dr. Mott pioneered in training native-born Y workers, saw them strengthen the Y's influence in countries like China, where seven of the ten members of one Chiang Kai-shek cabinet were former Y workers...